COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
AIC_.1978.137a-b
AMICA Library Year:
1999
Object Type:
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Creator Name:
Woodcock, Bancroft
Creator Nationality:
North American; American
Creator Dates/Places:
American; 1732-1817 North and Central America,North America,United Sta
Creator Name-CRT:
Bancroft Woodcock
Title:
Sugar Dish with Cover
Title Type:
preferred
View:
front view
Creation Date:
1765/75
Creation Start Date:
1765
Creation End Date:
1775
Materials and Techniques:
silver
Classification Term:
Sugar Dish
Classification Term:
Silver
Subject Description:
Sugar basin with lid; circular base engraved with ruffled design, pear-shaped body, with cast gadroon border, domed cover, and cast finial. Repousse festoons of flowers and leaves suspended from bowknots on basin cover.
Creation Place:
North and Central America,North America,United States,Delaware,Wilmington
Dimensions:
7 5/16 x 2 5/8 in. (diam. at base) (18.6 x 6.7 cm)
AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number:
1978.137a-b
Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Antiquarian Society
Inscriptions:
Sugar dish marked on bottom: "B: WOODCOCK" (in a conforming rectangle); inscribed "S.W. to E.R."
Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E15482.TIF
